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[Journeyman]

6. I was invited to tour City of Hope back in the mid-'90s. . .

A client was to be honored for his industry's efforts to fundraise for CoH.

We were told our itinerary at the beginning, first here, then there, then through this place, and ending at Pediatric Oncology.

I can't tell you how much we all dreaded that last stop. All we could think about was children with cancer.

It was the most uplifting hour of the tour.

We met some great kids (which we expected to do), but more than that, we were introduced to the head of the department. He told of how, when he first started working there in the early 1960s, his job consisted (in his words) of "preparing parents for the death of their child." But now, thirty years later, he said with a wide smile, he sends "better than 70% of these children home."

I can only imagine how much better the percentage is today, 20 years later.

As Paul Simon sang on Graceland so many years ago, "These are the days of miracle and wonder."